Re: HYB: how many seedlings?

Thanks Paul, for those examples from your own experience.  I will
definitely hold over any seedlings I don't line out this first year.  It
really does depend on the cross and how much variability there is, and
how would anyone know in advance how much variability to expect in all
the characteristics you mention?

I've been skeptical about the fastest growing seedlings having the most
"vigor".  Often the most rapid growth here can also be the most
susceptible to freeze damage and subsequent rot.

But I can also see Jim's point about having to wait extra years to see
maiden bloom on some of the slow ones.  Or maybe not -if all the rapid
growers die. .... Jim is in his 80s & still doing his own garden work,
so time is more of a limitation for him than space.

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